History of architecture

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In 1935, the Russian-born Jewish architect Berthold Lubetkin and his firm Tecton designed Highpoint, a block of flats in London, which Le Corbusier called 'revolutionary'.

This volume of primary sources examine British architectural history from 1760 to 1830.

Through Time and the City: Notes on Rome offers a new approach to exploring cities.

This book explores the transformation of market spaces in Portuguese cities during the intensification of trade driven by increasing profits from overseas exchanges, and how architectural structures and urban planning were directly impacted by these changes to accommodate the new economic dynamics.

This is a second edition of a textbook that provides the first comprehensive, easy-to-read, and up-to-date account of the fascinating discipline of archaeoastronomy, in which the relationship between ancient constructions and the sky is studied in order to gain a better understanding of the ideas of the architects of the past and of their religious and symbolic worlds.

The design of bars and cafes has played an important role in the development of architecture in the twentieth century.

Entre tantas cosas que pueden decirse de este libro –y que, seguramente, se dirán– la principal es que se trata, ante todo, de un gesto político.

This book provides an intellectual history of the modernist "e;minimum dwelling"e;, exploring how early modernism saw mass housing as a primary vehicle for achieving the utopian transformation of society.

The great cathedrals and churches of the medieval West continue to awe.

The Dusk of Design explores the intersection of evolutionary theories and architectural design.

*A Times and New Statesman Book of the Year**BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week*Illustrated with over 130 colour photographs and drawings'A masterpiece.

This is a book about urban complexity - how it evolves and how it gets destroyed.

Este libro Contra hipótesis no sólo escarba en la conducta del profesional de la construcción, sino también en las hipótesis que emplea la ciencia.

This collection of essays produces new ways of understanding place, space, and landscape in classical Greek literature.

A year after the second edition of his famous translation and commentary on Vitruvius, Daniele Barbaro published The Practice of Perspective, a text he had begun working on many years before.

For the past 50 years, the advancements of technology have equipped architects with unique tools that have enabled the development of new computer-mediated design methods, fabrication techniques, and architectural expressions.

The Architecture of the Facade provides a comprehensive study of the facade as both a physical and cultural artifact, highlighting its significance as a critical component of the civic realm and arguing for the restoration of the art of the facade as both a subject of study within academia and an aspiration within the profession at large.

The church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, also called San Carlino, is an architectural artefact that continues to attract numerous hypotheses and geometric analyses attempting to explain its form and meaning.

This volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of leading scholars to discuss frameworks of value in relation to the preservation of historic environments.

More than any other European city, Baroque Naples was dominated by convents.

Originally published in 2019, this book provides a comprehensive account of a formative historical period, uniquely describing Renaissance architecture as the physical manifestation of political and economic change.

Contemplating the Ancients: Aesthetic and Social Issues in Early Chinese Portraiture delves into the intriguing world of ancient Chinese art, exploring portraits that transcend physical likeness to embody deeper societal and aesthetic values.

The Return of Nature asks you to critique your conception of nature and your approach to architectural sustainability and green design.

Originally published in 1952 but enlarged and revised in 1969, this dictionary became a standard authoritative work of reference.

This book examines the connection between the politics of the Marshall Plan and urban planning and identifies the key players, such as the Greek architect and urban planner Constantinos A.

GrippingEconomistA fascinating expos Raja Shehadeh, author ofPalestinian WalksPath-breaking and brilliant Eyal Weizman, director of Forensic Architecture and author ofHollow LandTel Aviv, the Zionist projects White City, is said to have risen from the sands of the desert.

This two-volume encyclopedia covers buildings and sites of global significance from prehistoric times to the present day, providing students with an essential understanding of architectural development and its impact on human societies.

This volume explores the phenomenon and trend of cultural buildings by investigating 10 typical cities in China from the first, second, and third tiers, and from the Chinese diaspora.

The Printed and the Built explores the intricate relationship between architecture and printed media in the fast-changing nineteenth century.

In an era of steel and glass towers, the graceful and distinctive structures of Victorian Ontario which survive are a pleasing and a valuable link with the past.

This richly illustrated volume provides an architectural history of the central section of the Roman Forum during the Empire (31 BCE–476 CE).

A GLOBAL HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE NOW FEATURING ADDITIONAL COVERAGE OF CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE AND MORE SUPERB DRAWINGS BY FRANCIS D.

In the last twenty years, reception studies have significantly enhanced our understanding of the ways in which Classics has shaped modern Western culture, but very little attention has been directed toward the reception of classical architecture.

An essential exploration of the engineering aesthetics of celebrated structures from long-span bridges to high-rise buildingsWhat do structures such as the Eiffel Tower, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the concrete roofs of Pier Luigi Nervi have in common?

Architects today must position themselves within an extremely wide-ranging field of qualifications.

Architecture, and its pedagogy in the academy, is dominated by the technology of image production that veils the 'naked power' behind its operation.

This book is a study of architecture and urban design across the Mediterranean Sea from the 12th to the 14th Century, a time when there was no single, hegemonic power dominating the area.

For nearly a century the Garden City movement has represented one end of a continuum in an ongoing debate about the future of the modern city.

Edinburgh's architectural history is explored through 300 notable buildings, from galleries to monuments, by Robin Ward.

This book examines the creative exchanges between architects, artists and intellectuals, from the Early Renaissance to the beginning of the Enlightenment, in the forging of relationships between architecture and emerging concepts of language in early modern Italy.

Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body brings together cutting-edge scholarship examining the myriad ways that architects, urban planners, medical practitioners, and everyday people have applied modern ideas about health and the body to the spaces in which they live, work, and heal.

A major new urban history of the design and development of postwar San FranciscoDesigning San Francisco is the untold story of the formative postwar decades when U.

At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Ottoman Empire remained the grandest and most powerful of Middle Eastern empires.

Maximizing reader insights into interior design as a conceptual way of thinking, which is about ideas and how they are formulated.

In Doors: History, Repair and Conservation, readers are guided through the function, history, development, care, repair and conservation of doors by chapter authors who are experts in their field.

An informed, photo-filled guide to "e;all of the essential stopping places [with] terrifically detailed information on the architectural joys of Rome.

Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins: The Persistence of the Past in the Architecture of Apartheid interrogates how, in the era of decolonisation, post-apartheid South Africa reckons with its past in order to shape its future.